ABSTRACT
In 1975, Michael Kirby published an issue of The Drama Review devoted to postmodern dance, using the term in print for one of the first times in regard to dance and proposing a definition of the new genre: In the theory of post-modern dance, the choreographer does not apply visual standards to the work. In 1975, the postmodern dance issue of The Drama Review appeared; Charles Jencks used the term to refer to a new trend in architecture that had also begun to emerge in the early sixties. Then the breakaway choreographers of the 1960's could be called the forerunners of postmodern dance, just as Isadora Duncan, Loe Fuller, and Ruth St Denis are sometimes called the forerunners of modern dance. By breaking the rules of historical modern dance, and even those of the avant-garde of the fifties the postmodern choreographers found new ways to foreground the medium of dance rather than its meaning.
